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Atari Flashback BASIC and SuperCharger BASIC both support an old-school mode where you can write classic BASIC programs, hope some retro gamers are inspired to write a BASIC 10 line game!

There's more info and an example of my entry last year into the 10x80 category (that category has stricter entrance guidelines this year that exclude the VCS) along with the Flashback BASIC manual and download link.

The contest deadline is in 3 weeks!

BASIC is cool because of the amazing things that can be done in just 10 lines of code; check out some of the some of the amazing 10 line BASIC games from last year:

ATARI FLASHBACK BASIC! Make games for the AFP with awesome graphics, animation and a built in tracker/sequencer! Compatible with all Atari consoles! The IDE is already installed on your PC! Atari Flashback BASIC is cross compatible with the SuperCharger too!

AFB games can be recompiled with no changes using the SuperCharger BASIC compiler, available at Relationalframework.com/vwBASIC

Wow...10 lines of BASIC code for a 2600 game? Is that even possible? It takes a LOT just to get that machine to do a little.

Yes, BASIC is so simple it makes it easy to write a fun Atari game in just 10 lines of code!

Flashback BASIC and SuperCharger BASIC have familiar classic BASIC graphics commands including semigraphics and sprite commands and also a soft blitter chip like the Niintendo PPU that you can use to scroll the screen around.

Take a look at my entry in the 10 lines x 120 characters category from 2016, 9lineBlitzII:

ATARI FLASHBACK BASIC! Make games for the AFP with awesome graphics, animation and a built in tracker/sequencer! Compatible with all Atari consoles! The IDE is already installed on your PC! Atari Flashback BASIC is cross compatible with the SuperCharger too!

AFB games can be recompiled with no changes using the SuperCharger BASIC compiler, available at Relationalframework.com/vwBASIC

ATARI FLASHBACK BASIC! Make games for the AFP with awesome graphics, animation and a built in tracker/sequencer! Compatible with all Atari consoles! The IDE is already installed on your PC! Atari Flashback BASIC is cross compatible with the SuperCharger too!

AFB games can be recompiled with no changes using the SuperCharger BASIC compiler, available at Relationalframework.com/vwBASIC

Here's the updated version of GATES (still in 10 lines), and a high score contest!

Share your gameplay footage to compete, if you play in Javatari or Stella you can record your game with WINDOWS+G to bring up the built in game recorder.

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ATARI FLASHBACK BASIC! Make games for the AFP with awesome graphics, animation and a built in tracker/sequencer! Compatible with all Atari consoles! The IDE is already installed on your PC! Atari Flashback BASIC is cross compatible with the SuperCharger too!

AFB games can be recompiled with no changes using the SuperCharger BASIC compiler, available at Relationalframework.com/vwBASIC